Uglies: Difference between revisions

* [[And Man Grew Proud]]

* [[And That's Terrible]]:

* [[Assimilation Plot]]: Inverted with the people who started the utopia: they solved racial and image problems by making everyone a generic sort of beautiful.

* [[Audience Surrogate]]: Tally.

* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: It is a dystopian novel after all.

* [[Creator Provincialism]]: Ai, a non-English speaker, changes her name by adding a new consonant to the beginning, going through the English alphabet in order. Lampshaded in ''Bogus to Bubbly''.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Meta-example. Westerfeld gets this way in ''Bogus to Bubbly''.

* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: The reader is advised not to use nanotechnology to rewire your brain.

* [[Epigraph|Epigraphs]]: the beginnings of the different parts of books in the Uglies Trilogy.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Subverted with David and Zane. In ''From Bogus to Bubbly'', Westerfeld reveals that he just chose the names of Tally's two love interests without knowing that both of them mean "beloved".

** Played straight with a lot of names, though.

* [[The Mole]]: Tally in ''Uglies''. {{spoiler|This was also Shay and Tally's plan for Zane in ''Specials''.}}

* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Dr. Cable.